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    Gardening on the Curve
    Gardening on the Curve
    Gardening on the Curve
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    Gardening on the Curve

    By Ross Lamond

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    This mini book ‘Gardening on the Curve’ illustrates a process that encourages the gardener to consider using more of the curve in their gardening. The text presents some options and does not ask the gardener to take them on wholeheartedly but consider the relationships between the curve and nature, Chi flow, and we being part of them.
    To separate from a modern day lifestyle is to separate from those pressures and return to something of nature, be it for a few minutes or a day. Connectedness to nature allows us to keep a ‘foot in each door’ and introduces balance into our lives.
    It provides a separation from worlds that are moving across to mass urbanisation, technology and digitised personal communication. These worlds signify ‘Yang’ and are gathering to create ‘Yang Worlds’, an unknown and ‘product’ of mankind. These worlds are new or in the first generation of their existence.
    For people to maintain balance and equilibrium in their life, I suggest something of nature has to be recognised and taken within, and as such, offers a gateway to sustainability and harmony.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoss Lamond
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9780987477033
    Gardening on the Curve
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    Ross Lamond

    Ross Lamond is the youngest member of a well-known and respected dairy farming family of the New South Wales South Coast, Australia. He schooled away from home, completing secondary studies at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney. Upon leaving school, Ross returned to the family farm and over a forty year period, gained extensive experience in dairying, beef cattle production, sugarcane, small crop cultivation and horticulture. An ever present interest in the garden naturalised into that of a nurseryman, landscape gardener and grower of in ground trees for landscape. Concern about environmental issues such as tree decline, dry land salinity and habitat degradation led Ross into external studies in Environment at Mitchell College of Advanced Education at Bathurst, followed by post graduate studies in Urban and Regional planning at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. A chance reading of a Feng Shui publication in 1998, introduced Ross to Feng Shui and its influence on our lives and surroundings. He applied some of its principles into the garden and developed his own interpretation of Feng Shui garnished through personal experience and observation. The interest has led Ross into a journey of self-discovery including that of nature, environmentalism and spirituality. It’s an ever growing interest. Ross lives by himself, has four grown up children, and likes to travel and garden and write about his experiences and observations.

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      Gardening on the Curve - Ross Lamond

      Gardening on the Curve

      Published by http://www.RossLamond.com at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2013 by Ross Lamond

      All rights reserved.

      This work is owned by Ross Lamond and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any manner without the exclusive permission of the owner. All materials including photos, illustrations, diagrams and character names are subject to copyright.

      Cover design by Jannette Tibbs

      Diagrams by Jannette Tibbs and Ross Lamond

      For information regarding other books by Ross Lamond, please contact

      rosspalm7@hotmail.com

      Gardening on the Curve

      ISBN 978-0-9874770-3-3

      About the Author

      Ross Lamond is the youngest member of a well-known and respected dairy farming family of the South Coast of New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and upon leaving returned to the family dairy farm at Nowra.

      Over a forty year period, Ross gained extensive experience in dairying, beef cattle production, sugar cane, small crop cultivation and horticulture. A continued interest in the garden materialised into that of a nurseryman, landscape gardener and grower of in ground trees. Concern about environmental issues such as tree decline, dry land salinity and habitat degradation led Ross into external studies in Environment followed by a Post Graduate in Urban and Regional Planning gained through QUT, Brisbane in Queensland.

      A chance spiritual reading in 1998 introduced Ross to Feng Shui and Chi energy. Sustainable Feng Shui Gardening is the compilation of extensive experiences and hopefully introduces a unique vision towards sustainability in our lives and surroundings.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Yin and Yang Associations

      Sheng and Sha Chi in the Garden

      Spirit of the Curve - The Meandering Garden

      Natural versus Formal

      Movement and the Curve

      Rhythm and Flow in the Ideal Garden

      Mystery and Diversity

      Birdlife and ‘Chi’s up’

      Mantle of Protective Chi

      The Site Tells Us What it wants – Design with Nature

      Chi Flow Charting

      Soils and Chi Accumulation

      Maintenance in the Garden of the Curve

      Appendix Sustainability and Gardening on the Curve

      - The Energy Garden

      - The Natural Garden

      Introduction

      ‘Things are changing’, that’s been said before.

      Life is changing and its pace accelerating as a response to needs. A need to make money (or preserve it), the need for family relationships to remain intact, jobs, transport, relationships, and responding to what’s been thrown up by the media. Politicians, as those who lead their parties and country, are perhaps no longer equipped to do the job as a country and its people deserve.

      Gosh, I’m having a whinge; pressures on life increasing and many amongst us searching for a change or escape, and the garden an ideal place to do both.

      Garden styles tend to mimic changing social and cultural aspirations. Today, in the West there’s interest in the Eastern world and their many forms of gardening styles. Maybe it is an escape thing. The Balinese influence, for example, represents a contemporary free flowing style of garden, easy to install and suitable for most land areas lying within a reasonable rainfall, of fertile soils and temperate to sub-tropical climate. They can be escaped into, and the outside world...forgotten.

      Although available land for gardens is shrinking as competing uses materialise, and gardens are becoming built upon what’s been left over, their style adapting to suit the space and preferences of their owner.

      The gardens of everyday suburbia are not so much Eastern copies, but becoming mixtures or hybrids of many gardening styles, including something of formalised European blends designed to fit into constrained areas, such as courtyard, terrace or patio. Their gardening spaces expressed through arrangements of flower pots and paved surfaces, compact lawn areas to view and not play on, and gardens not to get the hands dirty. Maybe lifestyles are trying to draw us away from treading upon and feeling the Earth underneath.

      Such notions are a pity and consequence of modern day needs but something different is on offer. I’d like to offer one such garden style that seeks to mimic nature and get closer to the Earth. It is offering symbolism to nature. Creation of places where

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